NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Continuing the bioinformatics buying spree it began last year, Qiagen has acquired German biological data provider Biobase, renamed Qiagen Wolfenbüttel, for an undisclosed sum and has begun integrating some of Biobase's curated repositories with the bioinformatics assets t

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Maverix Biomics said this week that it has extended an existing co-marketing agreement with Qiagen by integrating a second set of software products to support customers analyzing data from RNA-sequencing studies.

Making good on integration plans announced last year with its informatics acquisitions, Qiagen said this week that it has updated its GeneGlobe solution, a web portal that offers access to biological assay kits and products, to include curated biological data from the proprietary

Qiagen this week announced new capabilities for GeneGlobe, a web-based solution enabling researchers to search and select from more than 31 million PCR assay kits and next-generation sequencing assay panel products.

Because most pure-play bioinformatics companies aren't publicly traded, the sector doesn’t have the financial barometer that things like quarterly earnings reports provide, making it somewhat challenging to gauge growth and speculate about future gains.